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"Containing practical, specific parenting advice; strategies for effecting change with educators, store managers, corporations, and more; and tips for challenging and changing the media, this essential guide gives parents the tools they need to fight back against the modern stereotyping and sexualization of young girls. Activist Melissa Wardy shares tangible advice for getting young girls to start thinking critically about sexed-up toys and clothes...
2) Fake news, propaganda, and plain old lies: how to find trustworthy information in the digital age
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Fake News, Propaganda, and Plain Old Lies explains how to identify deceptive information and seek out the most trustworthy information for informed decision making in your personal, academic, professional, and civic lives. Barclay takes an objective, non-partisan approach to the topic of sorting deceptive information from trustworthy information.
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Why do so many people care so much about celebrities? Who decides who gets to be a star? What are the privileges and pleasures of fandom? Do celebrities ever deserve the outsized attention they receive? In this fascinating and deeply researched book, Sharon Marcus challenges everything you thought you knew about our obsession with fame. Icons are not merely famous for being famous; the media alone cannot make or break stars; fans are not simply passive...
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"Provocative and compulsively readable, on the fiftieth anniversary of the release of the landmark blockbuster The Exorcist comes the definitive, fascinating story of its lasting impact as one of the most shocking, influential, and successful adventures in the history of film"--Jacket.
On December 26, 1973, The Exorcist was released. Moviegoers braved hours-long lines in winter weather to see it. Half a century later, the movie that both inspired...
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"In Escaping the Rabbit Hole, author Mick West shares over a decade's worth of knowledge and experience investigating and debunking false conspiracy theories through his forum, MetaBunk.org, and sets forth a practical guide to helping friends and loved ones recognize these theories for what they really are. Perhaps counter-intuitively, the most successful approaches to helping individuals escape a rabbit hole aren't comprised of simply explaining...
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A scathing reexamination of the lives of nine female celebrities in the 2000s, and the sexist, exploitative culture that took them down. Welcome to celebrity culture in the early aughts: the reign of Perez Hilton, celebrity sex tapes, and dueling tabloids fed by paparazzi who were willing to do anything to get the shot. It was a time when the Internet was still the Wild West, and when slut-shaming, fat-shaming, and revenge porn were all considered...
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This nonfiction book gives students a close-up look at media by exploring all forms and how it plays an important role in society. Ideal for young readers, the book includes a glossary and a short fiction piece related to the topic. Students will learn to tell the difference between facts and opinions with this exciting book and the accompanying extension activity. This 32-page full-color book defines media, explains how to separate fact from fiction....
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Goldberg takes aim at the America Bashers (the cultural elites who look down their snobby noses at "ordinary" Americans), the Hollywood Blowhards (incredibly ditzy celebrities who think they're smart just because they're famous), the TV Schlockmeisters, the Intellectual Thugs (bigwigs at some of our best colleges), and many more. Some supposedly "serious" journalists also made the list. But Goldberg doesn't just round up the usual suspects we have...
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There has been a lot of talk about "fake news" in the news lately. Being able to spot the difference between credible and non-credible sources is a vital 21st century skill to have. Learn the tricks and traps of deception and the skills required to achieve information literacy--and always get to the truth of the matter! Packed with fun facts and detailed sidebars, this informational text explores contemporary issues and high-interest, relevant subjects....
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Rituals mark significant moments in our lives - perhaps none more significant than moments of lightheartedness, joy, and play. The rituals that bond humanity create our most transcendent experiences and meaningful memories. Rituals of play are among the most sacred of any of the rites in which humanity may engage. Although we may fail to recognize rituals of play, they are always present in culture, providing a kind of psychological release for their...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 The Mandela Effect is a collective delusion in which large swaths of the populace misremember a catalog of indiscriminate memories. The most unhinged explanation involves quantum mechanics and the possibility of alternative realities.
#2 The soft differences between life in the 2020s and life in the 1990s are difficult to explain to people who did not experience both...
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¿Qué sucede cuando tu comunidad o familia normaliza el abuso y la violación? ¿Cómo enfrentar que se prioricen problemas como la escasez de maestros, comisarios, médicos o dirigentes por encima de tus derechos y dignidad?
Distintos lugares de la selva peruana evidencian las respuestas. Indiana, Mazán y Puinahua, en Loreto, y Nieva, en Amazonas, son cuatro distritos del Perú donde denunciar una violación sexual representa una traición a la...
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In The Complete Men School, Herlander Elias tells us the story of two journalists (Rafael Sterling and Roberta Wagner) who do together the best news report of their lives by disclosing a subculture of benefactors known as "The Complete Men School".
The plot progressively leads the reader into philosophical dialogues between a Master and his Apprentices who attend one of the secret 'Schools'. Rafael, the young protagonist, is longing for the elaboration...
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Many of us remember being forced to eat or drink something at the dinner table as children. Milk and Pea Oppression takes that experience to a whole new level, tying it in with the over-televised culture of a generation growing up with Tom and Jerry cartoons, Shrinky Dink commercials and Folgers Coffee. Through a humorous, touching and eye-opening narration, the author of Milk and Pea Oppression articulately explains how forcing someone to drink milk...
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Les médias sont un lieu de transit de nos visions du monde. Leurs discours et leurs contenus sont autant de traces des mondes sociaux des acteurs qui les produisent, les coconstruisent, les font circuler: journalistes, relationnistes, publics citoyens, etc. Dans cette perspective, nous considérons les discours médiatiques comme des archives sociales permettant à la fois d'étudier les marques de coopération de ces sources d'information et les...
17) Cool Capitalism
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Thomas Frank coined the term 'the conquest of cool'. This book shows how this conquest is at the heart of the dynamics of contemporary capitalism.
Jim McGuigan argues that 'cool capitalism' incorporates disaffection into capitalism itself, absorbing rebellion and neutralising opposition to the present system of culture and society.
The book explores a huge variety of cultural examples, from the sleek images of mainstream advertising, to...
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Marshall McLuhan was one of the most brilliant and original thinkers of the 20th century. He was so far ahead of his time that he predicted the future and offered a critique of human behavior in a media saturated world that is perhaps more valuable in today's Internet age than it was in his own time. McLuhan pioneered the study of Media, unified Art and Science, and warned us about the perils of a televised, computerized, famous-for-15-minutes, social...
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The role of media in our day-to-day life is gaining significance in numerous Ways. An insignificant news may take the shape of a sensational news and its reality and truth may be tarnished proving as irreparable damage. It requires caution and media discipline while giving currency to a news. The Gujrat issue is the one which have been debated in Parliament and in newspapers, thus giving damage to the communities. The theme is well-weaved into eight...
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Since its original publication in 1987, Channels of Discourse has provided the most comprehensive consideration of commercial television, drawing on insights provided by the major strands of contemporary criticism: semiotics, narrative theory, reception theory, genre theory, ideological analysis, psychoanalysis, feminist criticism, and British cultural studies. The second edition features a new introduction by Robert Allen that includes a discussion...
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